Trevino Shaina D, Kelly Nichole R, Budd Elizabeth L, Giuliani Nicole R
Department of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States.
Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 10;12:654237. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.654237. eCollection 2021.
Extant research supports a direct association between parent's own emotional eating and their child's emotional eating, and demonstrates correlations among parent emotional eating, feeding practices, and child emotional eating. However, the majority of this work focuses on the separate influences of these factors. The current study aims to add to the literature by simultaneously examining the indirect effects of three major parental feeding practices (i.e., emotion regulation, instrumental, and restrictive feeding) in the association between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating, and exploring how these indirect effects vary based on parent gender. Parents (86 fathers, 324 mothers) of an elementary school-age child ( = 8.35, = 2.29, range = 5-13) completed an online survey through Qualtrics Panels. Results suggested that restrictive feeding partially accounted for the association between parent and child emotional eating in the combined sample of mothers and fathers. Exploratory analyses revealed that the indirect effects of parental feeding practices in the association between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating varied based on parent gender. Among mothers, restrictive feeding was the only feeding practice that partially accounted for the association between maternal and child emotional eating, whereas all three feeding practices fully accounted for the association between father and child emotional eating. As the bulk of the literature on parent emotional eating and feeding has solely focused on mothers, these findings offer insight into how feeding practices may differentially function in the relation between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating for mothers versus fathers.
现有研究支持父母自身的情绪化进食与其孩子的情绪化进食之间存在直接关联，并证明了父母情绪化进食、喂养方式与孩子情绪化进食之间的相关性。然而，这项工作大多集中在这些因素的单独影响上。当前的研究旨在通过同时考察三种主要的父母喂养方式（即情绪调节、工具性和限制性喂养）在父母情绪化进食与孩子情绪化进食之间的关联中的间接影响，并探讨这些间接影响如何因父母性别而异，从而为该文献增添内容。一名小学学龄儿童（平均年龄 = 8.35，标准差 = 2.29，年龄范围 = 5 - 13岁）的父母（86名父亲，324名母亲）通过Qualtrics面板完成了一项在线调查。结果表明，在父亲和母亲的综合样本中，限制性喂养部分解释了父母与孩子情绪化进食之间的关联。探索性分析显示，父母喂养方式在父母情绪化进食与孩子情绪化进食之间的关联中的间接影响因父母性别而异。在母亲中，限制性喂养是唯一部分解释母亲与孩子情绪化进食之间关联的喂养方式，而所有三种喂养方式都完全解释了父亲与孩子情绪化进食之间的关联。由于关于父母情绪化进食和喂养的大部分文献仅关注母亲，这些发现为喂养方式在母亲与父亲的父母情绪化进食与孩子情绪化进食关系中可能如何发挥不同作用提供了见解。
